See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_servicese

I am sorry to keep asking, but I again would welcome a consensus of opinions about where I can hire web space for a personal web site. I can afford any reasonable monthly or yearly hire charge. My experience with web site space is:-

I started on the internet with Demon Internet, and with my username they provided only 20 megabytes of website space.

I now have a home BTBroadband email address, and I found that no web space goes with it.

I tried Tripod twice, and they dropped me because my web site proved to be high-download-rate.

A member of Renderosity let me use some of his webspace, and that was very thankful and useful, but after some years he shut down and moved away.

After that, another member of Renderosity let me use some of his web space, and that was very thankful and useful, but he seems to have left Renderosity and abandoned his web site, and the files that I uploaded to that site, or some of them, are still there, but attempts to link to the site with FTP to upload or delete files now cause time-out failure. (I wonder if his site has vanished completely, and what of it that I can read now is "ghosts in the system" preserved in buffers of big internet relay nodes.)

I do not know if either of those two ran their own servers. Many thanks to them for letting me use their web space for so long.

I would prefer FTP for upload and site management, because that is what I am used to.

High upload and download allowed would be useful.

I would prefer my pages to be free from inserted advertisements.

Please, all that I want is unbiased information.

I wrote "unbiased" because many of the "top ten web space providers" web sites admit that they receive money from website providers.

I asked about website providers at a big computer shop and at an accessories shop and both said that they knew nothing about website providers.

Glad you said you can afford to pay because free with FTP gets a bit thin with the options. I have used the environmentally friendly fatcow in the past and that has FTP support and just about every option that opens and shuts including email & cloud storage etc. and a great toolset I don't know where that company sits in the "top 10" but I never had an issue with the as far as reliability, support or them taking my payment. Currently they offer 1 year for 49/yr but if you go there click on the special introductory rate to check your pricing to know what you would be up for after that date. One thing i learnt about this yearly caper is a year comes around very quickly on the web :-)

Thanks.

http://www.fatcow.com/

The price is $49/year, not £49/year.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_services

and discussion in

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_services

Yes 49USD. I only put it out there as never had any trouble with them so viable option

$49/year is the first-year-only promotion price. For their regular prices, see http://www.fatcow.com/knowledgebase/beta/article.bml?ArticleID=1761

https://www.hosting24.com/

Affordable & unlimited. I used them for some time & then i let me website go.

for many years I had my website hosted on One.com and the support is great

x10hosting have a great free service, I used some time ago. ftp. no ads, cpanel.

I think the only thing they ask for is you must conect to your control panel one time month.

You could try these, very cheap and stable (5 stars on Trustpilot). Not sure about how much bandwidth they allow though, they claim unlimited like so may others but in practice there is usually a limit anyway:

https://www.unoeuro.com/

I have my own reseller hosting but I have been limiting it to hosting web design clients. Contact me via here if you re interested.

Please state prices and space size and whether FTP access, etc, or a web address to read. If possible, email me. Thanks.